dilanski wrote:In all honesty I prefer your art to the stuff you've lifted like the mechanik stat-card.

Sure, but it's a matter of math. I know how many free hours I have in a week, and how many hours it takes to draw even a little picture like that, and on average every small image I do for the rulebook delays production by a week. Four images delays it a month, a couple dozen delay it a year. Right now my spare hours are going to polishing the text instead, so for the artwork I'm look for alternate solutions.

As for releasing it a bit at a time... I'm just greedy for feedback. The changes get more provocative as the book goes on, so I know that once I release the later chapters, 100% of the feedback will be about those and I'll get nothing useful about the early stuff.

The book 2 rules were used to calculate the book 1 stats, just like I did with the stats in BW2001, so unless I messed up the math somewhere they should be 100% compatible.

dilanski wrote:In all honesty I prefer your art to the stuff you've lifted like the mechanik stat-card.

Sure, but it's a matter of math. I know how many free hours I have in a week, and how many hours it takes to draw even a little picture like that, and on average every small image I do for the rulebook delays production by a week. Four images delays it a month, a couple dozen delay it a year. Right now my spare hours are going to polishing the text instead, so for the artwork I'm look for alternate solutions.

I'm not going to ask you to spend hours doing art, I don't think anyone on the forum will, It's just your drawings (even the little pencil doodles) are superior in about every way to all other images I've seen. They were what compelled me to keep reading the rulebook.

Edit: A conclusion would be nice, when I first read the book it seemed weird it just ending with squads.

I think that the rules at 7.2 are a bit to complicated. You probably choose these rules because they make special creations destroyed less easily and makes for good interaction witch mechanik but it does require a player to keep track of both structure size and structure level as well as surface elements size and level.

PS: Chapter 7: Structures is still called special creations in the contents bar at the top of the page and the Mechanik card has a small typo:"Field construction allows a Mechank to"